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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-incidental-expenses-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1237",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-incidental-expenses-regulations-1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations consolidate, with amendments, the Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1985 which, with regulations amending them, are revoked by Regulation 11(1). They come into force on 12th August 1989 and apply in relation to a school year beginning on or after that date (Regulation 1). Changes of substance are described below.\nThe Regulations complement the Education (Assisted Places) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”), certain provisions of which are applied by Regulations 2(2), 6(2) and 9(2). They relate to the incidental expenses of pupils holding assisted places at schools by virtue of the scheme established pursuant to section 17 of the Education Act 1980 and provide for grants towards expenditure on uniform and other clothing and travel, and for the remission of charges for meals and charges for field study courses.\nThe amount of grant is subject to a means test, the provisions for which have been amended. The limit of “relevant income” (as defined in Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations) for payment of uniform grant in the first year is raised from £8,078 to £8,450 with corresponding increases in the maximum amounts of grant payable where relevant income is below that figure, varying from £129 (formerly £123) to £32 (formerly £31); and in subsequent years from £7,741 to £8,097 with maximum grants of £48 (£46) and £24 (£23) (Regulation 3).\nSchool travel grant is payable in full where relevant income does not exceed £7,595 (formerly £7,271) and scaled down where relevant income exceeds that figure (Regulation 4).\nCharges for field courses are remitted in full where the parents are entitled to a remission of fees under Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (Regulation 7). Regulation 7, and the provisions of Regulation 5 (remission of charges for meals), Regulation 6 (determination of questions), Regulation 8 (general provisions) and Regulation 10 (power of the Secretary of State to specify the time, manner and form in which parents are to apply for grants or remission of charges) are unchanged.\nThe Secretary of State is required by Regulation 9 to reimburse schools for grants made and charges remitted under these Regulations or under the Regulations revoked by Regulation 11(1).",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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